29/12/2025
🤞 GOOD NEWS UPDATE: We have received strong applications for the terrific trio's potential Forever-Home, so are closing to any more, to avoid disappointment. 🤞
Could You Adopt Bonded Grumble, Tom, Tilly & Eddie?
Here’s an unusual APPEAL, for a ready-made grumble of 3 bonded-pugs looking for their Forever-home.
Eddie, Tom & Tilly are a gorgeous grumble who have always lived together & as they are truly bonded they need to remain together. It will be a very special home that reaps the reward of these 3 adorable pugs!
Eddie is a 7 year-old, shiny, black male. Tom & Tilly are 6 year-old litter-mates. Tom is a big-boned fawn boy & Tilly a beautiful apricot fawn girl.
The 3 of them are very affectionate to each other & always sleep together, either all lined up or piled up on top of each other! They clean each other too, especially Eddie who likes to make sure his younger siblings have immaculate faces & ears at all times!
Considerations for their adopter:
Their Humans:
As well as being loving with each other, they are equally loving to their people. All 3 of them love to lay on a lap, or snuggle into their people, as close as they can & rest their little chins. Tilly will climb up onto your chest to get her face as close as possible to yours.
Other Dogs:
All 3 of them are very friendly & gentle with other elderly dogs in the extended family of their home, although Tilly likes to let other female dogs know that she is the boss-girl in her own territory.
Cats:
They have all learned to be respectful of their fosterer’s dog-savvy cat after careful introductions. They are calm around him & all coexist happily now. Initially, they did bark at the cat & will do sometimes when they see others out on walks, though can equally ignore or even sniff them gently on other occasions.
Children:
The grumble is kind & gentle with children they meet. Eddie & Tilly particularly enjoy a gentle fuss & cuddle from them. Tom gets anxious around loud & active children so will try to hide from them. If given his own space & time though, he will accept gentle petting from quiet children without hiding away.
Housetraining:
The trio are all housetrained & toilet in the garden, but only Eddie seems to understand that they can toilet on walks too! So, after a walk, Tilly & Tom still need to be offered a trip to the garden.
Although housetrained, the boys both marked in the early weeks at their foster home. This behaviour has almost completely resolved as they have settled, though it may resurface in a new home. Having some belly bands might be useful during their settling in period.
Walks & Outdoors:
The gorgeous trio were not too used to regular walks before coming into foster, & it showed in their fitness, waistlines & leash behaviour! However, they have made amazing strides forward in all these aspects, while still a work in progress.
All 3 have lost a lot of their excess weight, though aren’t at their ideal targets yet so this will need to be supported in their forever home. Their fitness has improved immensely & they can all walk happily for over an hour.
Eddie walks beautifully on a lead. He loves to stop & take his time having a good sniff around. Tom & Tilly need ongoing work on their leash manners. Tom pulls as a mixture of excitement & anxiousness & he lunges at passing noisy vehicles, but is improving. Tilly gets very excited about going for walks & pulls on the lead unless you are happy to jog with her!
All 3 are very good off lead in an enclosed area. Their recall is mixed where all 3 will come when called, unless distracted like playing with other dogs, but especially if they hear you shaking a bag of treats!
Tilly is strongly drawn to water so needs to be kept on leash near lakes & rivers etc.
Indoors:
The grumble all sleep happily together downstairs, cuddled up in a dog bed or on the sofa. They are quite sensitive to sounds outside & calming music left on especially when left alone at home, comforts them & prevents them barking at noises.
All 3 are very respectful when their people are eating. They may stare a bit, but they don’t beg or try to sn**ch food & can even sleep through it! Tilly & Tom do need reminding to take their treats gently though!
Eddie, Tom & Tilly are a wonderful, loving, grumble of pugs who will bring love, fun & joy with endless snuggles to their new family.
Please go to our website for more photos plus lots of extra details about each of the 3 pugs, & where you can apply for them directly, at:
https://pugwelfare-rescue.org.uk/could-you-adopt-bonded-grumble-tom-tilly-eddie/
If you have any specific questions about this gorgeous grumble, or your application, please email Lisa at:
[email protected]
